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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES COX JAMES AND CHARLES WILLIAM JAMES, OF DAYTON, OHIO;

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JAMES ADMINISTRATOR OF SAID CHARLES C. JAMES, DE-

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 327.880, dated October 6, 1885.

Application filed July 9, 1885. Serial No. 171,100. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, CHARLES Cox JAMES and CHARLES WILLIAM JAMES, of Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stock-Cars; and wedo hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description, of the invention whichwill enable others skilled in the art to which it apro pertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form part of this specification.

Cur invention consists in the combination and arrangement of certain mechanical deversion into either an open or closed car.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation showing the car as open and adapted to haul coal; Fig. 2, a side elevation showing the car as closed and ready for use as .2 a stock-conveyor.

Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

A is the car, having ordinary stringers, draw-bars, and truss-rods, and suitably mounted on trucks, but which are not shown,

as they form no part of our invention.

, B is the outside door,adapted to slide along on track or rod (1 back to open position, as shown in Fig. 1.

3 5 C C are sliding doors or sections,which run along rods on the top and inside of the car, and slide behind door B when the caris open.

The outside door, B, is provided with an angle-iron, e, which is bent at its end to en- 0 gage the recess between the track (upon which it slides) and the car, said track being secured to the top of the car by bolts or rivets. This door, as well as the others, is constructed of slats or beams with apertures between for theadmission of the air, and is suitably braced by cross-beams, 820., as is common in the construction of the doors and sides of transporting-cars. The doors or sections C C are also provided with a projecting iron or catch at their upper sides to engage the recess between the inside track upon which they slide.

The door B is made the whole height of the car, and the doors or sections C may also be made of the same height when desirable; but in this instance we have shown them only occupying half the height of the car-side, the other half being protected by the stationary sections E E.

The manner of fastening the doors C D may be accomplished with any suitable fastener, and hence it is thought unnecessary to show them.

The beams or posts G,which hold and brace the sides of the car,are rigidly secured to the bottom thereof by bolts and a mortise, and at the top by metallic braces,which are secured both to the beams and to the top of the car.

The top of the car is furnished with apertures of a suitable shape for the insertion of chutes of the desired pattern,when it is desired to load from the top of the car. \Vhen these chutes are removed, hatchways can be inserted in their stead to cover the apertures.

When it is desired to use our invention for transporting stock,the sides of the car are in the position shown in Fig. 2, with the movable sectional sides in their proper places heside the outside door, and said door is drawn over the supplementary half-door, which is, as before mentioned, used for hauling coal, &c., and may be raised 011 the stop or catch arranged on the beam above during heated periods, and can be lowered and fastened in cold weather, as the outside door prevents the egress of the stock, and after the removal of the stock, should it be desired to convert the car so that it will be adapted to convey coal or otherlike materials, the sectional sides are run along on the inside rod back to the position shown in Fig. 1, and the outside door is also run on the outside rod aback into a corresponding but opposite position to the said sectional sides. The coal can then be introduced either by the old method or by the chutes herein mentioned.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination of the movable sectional doors of the car and the central outside In testimony that We claim the foregoing sliding 7 door with the inside and outside as our own We hereunto affix our signatures IO tracks or rods, substantially as set forth. in presence of two Witnesses.

2. The sides of a combined coal and stock CHARLES COX JAMES. 5 car having the sectional doors sliding on rods CHARLES WILLIAM JAMES.

inside of car,and the central outside door slid- Witnesses: ing on rods outside of said car substantially FRANK WVILLIAM THOMAS, J as described. CHARLES J. MCKEE. 

